Strip Chicken

Strip Chicken pairs you off with someone else at the table and turns clothing into the stakes. Whoever throws it nominates their opponent, then it's one item off at a time, turn about, until somebody chickens out. The rule's got a built-in escape hatch too: bottle it and you take a shot instead of stripping any further, no shame required.

At a real table it starts as a stand-off and ends as theatre. Both players run a quick stocktake of their own outfit before a sock's even come off — count your layers and you already know your odds. The one in a jumper over a shirt over a vest has rounds to spare; the one in a t-shirt and jeans is reaching for a shot within about ninety seconds, to a chorus of disappointed noise from the table.

Honest tactic: dress for the game before the game picks you. Extra layers are the only real advantage here, everything else is nerve. And read the room before you nominate — this one only lands well when both players are actually up for it, otherwise it's a shot and move on, no hard feelings.

It sits in the 3rd Circle, one of the board's three twenty-wedge rings, so it turns up with decent regularity — often enough that it pays to know your layering strategy before someone else's dart puts you on the spot.